Oh boy, that is an exciting time period to overlap. They'd have definitely been in proximity during the early part of Kostos's training! And yeah I think not liking each other very much seems likely, Ilias was a nice boy but super shy and studious and overly polite in a way that's easy to misread as "a stuck-up kiss-ass" if you're so inclined. He would have been harrowed at some point while Kostos was around, too, after which was probably peak time for any politically ambitious instructors to brag about how great he is in hopes of riding future family coattails, surely endearing him to everyone.
I think he'd have been pretty ???? about Kostos in general, b/c he's not competitive at all and believed Working Hard Gets You Far Enough (while also hugely benefiting from his family name), like maybe stop being such a hotshot and just do your work and it'll be fine, there's enough mummies for everyone!! But he'd have wholesale avoided any confrontation about it and vis-a-vis probably avoided Kostos a bit, which might've just made him seem more stuck up.
I'd been vaguely assuming Mortalitasi go live el...swhere, like closer to the necropolis at some point after harrowing?? In which case they might've been outside each other's orbits during their respective big life dramas? But there would certainly have been rumors about Ilias's cousin's death and his ex's abrupt transfer and the fact that Ilias went nigh on catatonic for a bit when he was 20ish. And I assume he'd have heard about Kostos disappearing and Nikos trying to kill the king, wtf dude. Iiiif they were around each other at all in between those two events Ilias would have been a hot mess of bad decision coping mechanisms, one of which could have been Kostos, but it's equally possible they just didn't reconnect. Until now.
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I think he'd have been pretty ???? about Kostos in general, b/c he's not competitive at all and believed Working Hard Gets You Far Enough (while also hugely benefiting from his family name), like maybe stop being such a hotshot and just do your work and it'll be fine, there's enough mummies for everyone!! But he'd have wholesale avoided any confrontation about it and vis-a-vis probably avoided Kostos a bit, which might've just made him seem more stuck up.
I'd been vaguely assuming Mortalitasi go live el...swhere, like closer to the necropolis at some point after harrowing?? In which case they might've been outside each other's orbits during their respective big life dramas? But there would certainly have been rumors about Ilias's cousin's death and his ex's abrupt transfer and the fact that Ilias went nigh on catatonic for a bit when he was 20ish. And I assume he'd have heard about Kostos disappearing and Nikos trying to kill the king, wtf dude. Iiiif they were around each other at all in between those two events Ilias would have been a hot mess of bad decision coping mechanisms, one of which could have been Kostos, but it's equally possible they just didn't reconnect. Until now.